Presidential Documents
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The President
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Presidential Determination No. 2000-30 of September 19,
2000
Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's
Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada
Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency [and] the Secretary of the Air Force
I find that it is in the paramount interest of the
United States to exempt the United States Air Force's
operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, (the
subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-
S-94-795-PMP) and Frost v. Perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94-714-
PMP)), from any applicable requirement for the
disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified
information concerning that operating location.
Therefore, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), I hereby
exempt the Air Force's operating location near Groom
Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate, or
local provision respecting control and abatement of
solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would
require the disclosure of classified information
concerning that operating location to any unauthorized
person. This exemption shall be effective for the full
one-year statutory period.
Nothing herein is intended to: (a) imply that in the
absence of such a Presidential exemption, the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or any other
provision of law permits or requires disclosure of
classified information to unauthorized persons; or (b)
limit the applicability or enforcement of any
requirement of law applicable to the Air Force's
operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, except
those provisions, if any, that would require the
disclosure of classified information.
The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and
directed to publish this determination in the Federal
Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, September 19, 2000.
[FR Doc. 00-25742
Filed 10-4-00; 8:45 am]
Billing code 5001-05-M